[omniORB] Child processes on redhat

[Mark Zimmerman]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:11:03PM -0600, John Chesshir wrote:
>     In running my processes that use omniORB, I have noticed that two
> child processes get spawned at the point in the code where the root POA
> is accessed.  (We don't spawn any more POA's.)  Can someone tell me why
> this is happening?  Would you expect that more child processes got
> started during the execution of the program as CORBA requests came in,
> or does it stop at two for the entire execution of the program?  I ask
> because, if it did, my superiors would find that rather disturbing.
>  

Are you running a kernel with version 2.4.x or older? If so, these are
probably threads, not subprocesses. Pre-2.6 kernels assigned a
separate process ID to each thread. This was annoying and I am glad
it's gone now.

-- Mark